About this artwork
Mies van der Rohe realized many influential tall buildings and is widely credited with establishing a minimalist design template for rectangular towers in steel-and-glass office buildings in American cities throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Mies’ first realized towers, however, were a series of residential buildings in Chicago, the most famous of which is 860–880 Lake Shore Drive, completed in 1951. With an economy of line, this sketch for two high-rise buildings illustrates the dynamic, perpendicular relationship of the 860– 880 towers, as well as the uniform columns supporting the buildings’ volumes at ground level, creating a joined arcade and lobbies for the apartments.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Architecture and Design
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Artist
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Architect)
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Title
- Highrise Buildings Sketch, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective Sketches
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Place
- Chicago (Building address)
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Date
- 1941–1953
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Medium
- Graphite on note paper, mounted on archival board
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Dimensions
- 15.2 × 21.7 cm (6 × 8 9/16 in.); Including board: 25.3 × 36.1 cm (10 × 14 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Architecture Society and the Alexander C. and Tillie S. Speyer Foundation in Honor of John Zukowsky; through prior gift of the Three Oaks Wrecking Company and Carson, Pirie, Scott and company; Samuel P. Avery Endowment and Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
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Reference Number
- 1992.9
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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